Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most serious complications of diabetes and a common blinding eye disease. It refers to the abnormal self-regulation of capillaries caused by long-term hyperglycemia, resulting in extensive retinal ischemia and hypoxia. Initiating retinal edema and neovascularization, resulting in the formation of lesions.
Wang Yi, president of Chongqing Aier Eye Hospital (General Hospital), reminded that even if the patient’s blood sugar is usually well controlled, the occurrence and development of diabetic retinopathy cannot be completely prevented and prevented. Symptoms of diabetic retinopathy vary as the disease progresses. Patients with early diabetic retinopathy may have good vision, no pain or itching, and normal vision. When it develops to a certain extent, blurred vision, dark shadows, and distortion of vision will occur, eventually leading to blindness.
Wang Yi said that the reason why diabetic patients are the focus of eye fundus experts is that every diabetic patient has the possibility of developing diabetic retinopathy. Therefore, diabetic patients need to monitor blood sugar every day to make blood sugar control stable. Through a comprehensive examination of the fundus, the changes in the blood vessels in the eye can be clearly seen, so as to screen for eye diseases. If not taken seriously, diabetic retinopathy patients will be nearly blind in the advanced stage, and the lost vision cannot be recovered. (Contributed by the General Hospital of Chongqing Aier Eye Hospital)
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